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The muralist, painter and sculptor Jorge González Camarena (1908-1980) was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He attended the Fine Arts Academy of San Carlos (“Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas”) in Mexico City. In 1928 headed a movement to promote Diego Rivera to be the dean of the Fine Arts Academy of San Carlos.Jorge was part of the Second Generation of the Mexican School of Painting. He was a member of the Seminar of Mexican Culture (“Seminario de Cultura Mexicana”), the Arts Academy, member of the Commission to Protect and Preserve the Murals of Mexico of INBA (“Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes”), and president of the Mexican Association of Plastic Arts (“Asociacion Mexicana de Artes Plásticas AMAPAC.”)Throughout his career González Camarena earned many coveted awards, such as “Insignia Jose Clemente Orozco” from the Congress of Jalisco State in 1956, second prize at the “Salon Annual de Pintura del INBA” sponsored by the National Institute of Fine Arts in 1962, Gold Plaque from the Government of Jalisco in 1964, “L’Ordine al Merito de la República Italiana” from the government of Italy for painting a portrait of Michael Angelo, located at the Italian artist’s house in 1967, and the National Prize of Arts in Painting in 1970.González Camarena’s works have been displayed in many exhibits, for example, at the National Museum of  Plastic Arts at the Fine Arts Palace (“Palacio de Bellas Artes.”) in Mexico City and the Contemporary Mexican Art Exhibit promoted by the Foreign Relations Secretariat and the OPIC in Bordeaux, Paris, Lille, Lyon and Tolouse, France in 1958. The artist’s murals are included in public collections such as the library at the Technological Institute of Monterrey, Mexico ("El historiador Sahagun”),  Main building of the Social Security Institute in Mexico City, (“Pintura Mural”), University of Concepción, Chile (“Integracion Latinoamericana”), National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico, D.F. (“Las Razas y la Cultura”), Fine Arts Palace in Mexico City (“Liberación”), Mexican Senate building (“Las Dos Revoluciones”) The Bank of Mexico, Veracruz, the Museum of Modern Art, and the National Museum of History (“Castillo de Chapultepec”)  in Mexico City.

Aquellos arcos

Casa con botellon Iglesia de Dolores Hidalgo 41x46 cm

Mujer con Collar

Dibujo

Bambi

Caballo con Jinete

Ultimo estere

Cinco para las siete, 1978Tlalpan

Canción de esperanza, 1975,col. Academia de Artes

Teocallis

Convento de Huejotzingo, 1947

Cabeza de mujer

Diamantes

Jeannie

( Brigitte Bardot ) Mexico 1978

Sueño

Trilogía de Saltillo

Triptico Gabriela

Perro de circo

Mujer sentado, 1961

Retrato de Rosa Luz Alegría, 1979Rosa Luz Alegría Escamilla (born 1949) the first female Secretary of State in Mexico

Amapolas de Xochimilco, 1940

El pericoMuseo Nacional de Arte, INBA

La vendimia nacional

Sin-titulo

Aguas frescas, 1979

La Patria

Mural de Jorge González Camarena en edificio de rectoría del ITESMUntitled

La muchacha de San Miguel

woman

Diamantes

Cuarto estudio en el convento de Huejotzingo

La Constitution de 1917Mexico’s National HistoryMuseum

La fusión de dos culturas 1963 (4.20m x 5.10 m) Mexico’s National History Museum

Detail from La fusión de dos culturas 1963 (4.20m x 5.10 m) Mexico’s National History Museum

El abrazo de las culturasMuseo de Santo Domingo , Oaxaca

Some of his works depict soldiers in violent combat - a metaphor for Mexico's historic clash of cultures - and some are character examinations. At different moments, his work can represent the experience of alien peoples living side by side, or express an irreducible mystery at the heart of indian culture.

El mural La exhumación del conquistador Cristóbal Romero (249 x 249cm) Diablo filarmonico

Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social El trabajo

'El Trabajo.' Ca. 1950 Grupo escultórico del edificio delIMSS Dibujo de proyecto sobre papel

Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social El trabajo

Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social Paseo de la Reforma

Pintura Mural México Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social

Benito Juarez, by Jorge Gonzalez Camarena, 1968 The Right to Conquer (derecho)

Horses

Xochitl, 1956 Cantera Xaltocán Colección Alfonso Gaytán

Los bañistas

Naked

La sombra

La tierra alcanzando la luna (40.6x110.5 cm)

La ofrenda (dia de los muertos)

Trabajo campesino, industrial e intelectua

La muchacha del diablito no. 3

Cara de mujer

Tercer Victoria

Procesion

Centenario Del encuentro De Dos Mundos Expo 92

Mural by Jorge González Camarena, National Museum of Anthropology and History

The Museo Soumaya is a private museum in Mexico City with free admission

Jorge González Camarena Milagro del Tepeyac,1947

"El Triunfo de la cultura“ (The Triumph of Culture) A 7 by 32.40 meters (23 ft × 106.30 ft) polychromatic bas-relief in stone, mosaic and oil painting at the Old Library (current Rectorate) of the Monterrey Institute of Technology

"El Triunfo de la cultura“ (The Triumph of Culture), Monterrey, 1954)

"Sin titulo"

Mural Belisario Domínguez, de 130 metros cuadrados, Camara de Senadores (detail)

Palacio de Bellas Artes in México CityPalacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City Liberación o La humanidad se libera de la miseria

Liberación o La humanidad se libera de la miseria

Liberación o La humanidad se libera de la miseria

Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City Liberación o La humanidad se libera de la miseria

Jorge González Camarena

Palacio de Bellas Artes in México City

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